distressed
Example Sentences
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At Milan Fashion Week on Thursday, the Prada show opened with cozy knit sweaters and multi-coloured scarves, only for garments to be ripped open, exposed and distressed as the catwalk continued.
From Barron's
Or that the public housing she championed would itself deteriorate so badly that, by 1990, the federal government would label much of it as “severely distressed”—and demolish it for having become a latter-day slum.
There were distressed assets, but people buy distressed assets at 50 cents on a dollar.
The clinical trial, called Pathways, was set to involve children who are distressed about their gender and currently accessing gender services.
From BBC
She wore a white frilly shirt and distressed black jorts and loafers.
From Los Angeles Times
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